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diminuta
diminuta

Reputation: 1583

Url redirection inside a modal window

My webapp can be run "by itself" or opened in a modal window by another webapp...

When the user closes the window I must clean some data so I catch the event of closing the window and I redirect to a certain action like this:

    <script language="JavaScript">
        window.onbeforeunload = function() {
            if ((window.event.clientX < 0) || (window.event.clientY < 0) || (window.event.clientX < -80) || window.event.altKey == true) { // close button or ALT+F4
                window.location.assign('<%=request.getContextPath()%>/borraSemaforo.do');
            }
        };
    </script>

This works when the webapp is runing in a non-modal window, but not inside a modal window.

I have no control over the application that opens mine in a modal window so I can not make any change to the way the window is opened...

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3368

Answers (1)

moha297
moha297

Reputation: 1912

For cases where your application loads in a modal window:

One way is:

You can create an hidden iframe in the window in your onbeforeunload event handler. In the iframe put the url of the action.

Another way -

Create a small modal window pointing to the url path. In the response of that url path send a small javascript to just close the modal window.

Code for opening an iframe - basic js

    var i = document.createElement('iframe');
            i.style.display = "none";
            var d = new Date();
            i.id = d.getTime();
    i.onload = function(){
/*Task complete*/
 alert('frame loaded')}
            i.name = "exp" + d.getTime();
            i.src = window.location.protocol + "//" + window.location.host + '<path>';
            document.body.appendChild(i);

Upvotes: 1

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